StoryTitle("caps", "The Seven Virgins") ?>
A Carol
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All under the leaves and the leaves of life ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I met with virgins seven, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And one of them was Mary mild, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our Lord's mother of Heaven. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O what are you seeking, you seven fair maids, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All under the leaves of life? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come tell, come tell, what seek you ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All under the leaves of life?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"We're seeking for no leaves, Thomas, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But for a friend of thine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We're seeking for sweet Jesus Christ, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To be our guide and thine.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Go down, go down, to yonder town, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sit in the gallery, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there you'll see sweet Jesus Christ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nail'd to a big yew-tree.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So down they went to yonder town ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As fast as foot could fall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And many a grievous bitter tear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From the virgins' eyes did fall.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O peace, Mother, O peace, Mother, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your weeping doth me grieve: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I must suffer this,\" He said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"For Adam and for Eve. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O Mother, take you John Evangelist", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All for to be your son, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he will comfort you sometimes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Mother, as I have done.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O come, thou John Evangelist, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thou'rt welcome unto me;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But more welcome my own dear Son, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whom I nursed on my knee.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then He laid His head on His right shoulder, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Seeing death it struck Him nigh—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"The Holy Ghost be with your soul,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I die, Mother dear, I die.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O the rose, the gentle rose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the fennel that grows so green! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "God give us grace in every place ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To pray for our king and queen.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Furthermore for our enemies all ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our prayers they should be strong: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Amen, good Lord; your charity ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is the ending of my song.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>